English

Noun

trench boot ‎(plural trench boots)

1. A boot designed to stand up to the wet, muddy conditions of trench warfare.
   • 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 371:

     Besides, whilst he had been in hospital, practically the whole of his equipment had disappeared from his kitbag – including Sylvia's two pair of sheets! – and he had no money with which to get more. He had not even any trench-boots.